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Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

Usually, when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

I believe that you need to be the person you are and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If you want something, go out and get it. Follow your dreams, and never give up!

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

Most parents have college funds and things. I don't. I call myself the "hood daddy." I got their money in cash, stashed up. I don't have plans for my kids. I just want them to be happy.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it.

Start spreading the news, I am leaving today. I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.

Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.

I think people desperately want to feel love.

Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.

Why I wake up in the morning is that I'm still alive, and I want to figure out whatever I can before it's over.

A fan can be able to say what he wants, do what he wants - he pays his money.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.